INSTRUCTIONS FOR AUTHORS

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About Latino Studies

Latino Studies is an international, peer-reviewed journal. Its principal aim is to advance interdisciplinary scholarship about the lived experience and struggles of Latinas and Latinos for equity, representation, and social justice. Sustaining the tradition of activist scholarship of the founders of Chicana and Chicano Studies and Puerto Rican Studies, we critically engage the study of the local, national, transnational, and hemispheric realities that continue to influence the Latina and Latino presence in the United States.

Latino Studies provides an intellectual forum for innovative explorations and theorization, and is committed to developing a new transnational research agenda that bridges the academic and non-academic worlds and fosters mutual learning and collaboration among all the Latino national groups. We publish scholarly research, periodic reports on curriculum developments and pedagogy, analyses of significant regional and local events, and letters from our readers on our contributors' articles.

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General submission guidelines

We welcome submissions of original research articles from scholars in the national and international research communities. Manuscripts should preferably be submitted in English, in Word format, via electronic attachment. Please double space the entire manuscript, including all notes and bibliographical references, and make sure all pages are numbered consecutively. Scholarly articles should not normally exceed 8,000 words in length. Please print a word count and date at the end of your manuscript.

Please note that the Journal can only accept submissions of unpublished manuscripts, that are not being considered by other publications.

Initial submission

Latino Studies now has an Internal Review Committee, composed of the Editor, (Suzanne Oboler, (John Jay College/CUNY) and the Journal’s 3 Associate Editors – Marixsa Alicea (DePaul University), Raymond Rocco, (UCLA), and Silvio Torres Saillant (Syracuse University). The Committee meets 3 times a year, to read and review each submission prior to our review process. The purpose of our internal review committee is to enhance authors’ chances for publication.

Upon submission, the Committee meets to determine whether each submitted article is:

    a) ready to send out immediately,
    b) Requires some revision prior to the review process
    c) Would be better placed in a different journal
    d) Not ready for submission.

Our submission deadlines for the Internal Review Committee’s 3 yearly meetings are:

  • May 15
  • September 15
  • February 10

Please send your submission electronically. We do not need a CD or hard copy with your initial submission. Once an article is accepted for publication, authors are asked to submit the final version of their manuscript via email attachment to:

  • Suzanne Oboler
    Editor, Latino Studies,
    John Jay College of Criminal Justice, CUNY
    Department of Latin American and Latina/o Studies
    445 West 59th Street, room 1555N
    New York, NY 10019, USA
    E-mail: latstu@jjay.cuny.edu
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Latino Studies sections

In addition to original research articles,Latino Studies welcomes submissions for the following specific sections:

  • Vivencias: reports from the field – short essays and reflections (8 to 10 pages, double spaced) on significant local issues, struggles and debates affecting the lives of Latinas and Latinos in local communities around the country. In addition, in this section, we also welcome submissions of interviews with Latino/as who are making contributions in their local community, or nationwide (e.g. authors, artists, community activists, union leaders, etc.).
  • Páginas Recuperadas – short archival documents reflecting historically-significant achievements by individuals, and/or pivotal events in the Latino/a experience.
  • Reflexiones Pedagógicas – short essays addressing education-related issues that contribute to the development and institutionalization of the field in the academy.

Please send your submissions to the Editor, to: latstu@jjay.cuny.edu

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Style Guidelines

Below are some guidelines for in-text citations, notes, and references, which you may find useful as you prepare your manuscript for submission. Please refer to the “Author-Date Citations and Reference Lists” described in Chapter 16 of The Chicago Manual of Style for more specific examples.

Manuscript style guidelines

In order to preserve anonymity during the peer review process, we ask that authors omit any obvious references to their own publications. These can either be added upon acceptance.

We prefer short sentences, short paragraphs, lively prose and creative use of language, and simple clear phraseology with direct tenses. In addition:

  • Manuscript should be double-spaced.
  • Margins should be one inch on top, bottom, left and right.
  • Font should be Times New Roman, 12 point.
  • Quotations should be within double quotation marks. When quoting within quotations, please use single quotes.
  • Long quotations of five or more lines should be indented and single-spaced without quotes.
  • Numbers 11 and higher should be in figures.
  • Dates should be in the form of September 5, 1990; 1994-1998; or, the 1990s.

References in the Text

In the text, use the last name(s) of the author(s) (without first name initials, unless there are two authors in your reference list with the same name) and year of publication

  • Example:

    Since Padilla (1985) published his seminal book...

For in-text citations, insert the author name and date in parenthesis before the final punctuation.

  • Example:

    ... (Allatson, 2007).

Where possible, please include the specific page number(s). Insert a comma between the date and the page number(s).

  • Example:

    ... (Mendoza, 2006, 15). Or, (Mendoza, 2006, 15-23).

Unpublished data and personal communications should include initials, last name, and year. Publications which have not yet appeared are given a probable year of publication.

  • Example:

    More recently, various scholars have discussed both the importance and the pitfalls of interracial collaboration (Capetillo-Ponce, 2009, 56; Betancur et al., 1999). Still others (G. Candelario, (2008, personal communication) suggest....

Publications by the same author(s) in the same year should be identified by adding a, b, c (e.g. 1984a, 2009b) to the year. If there are two authors for a publication, use both names separated by “and” (not “&”). If there are more than two authors, put the name of the first author followed by et al.

Internet Citations

Include author’s last name and year in text; full citation should be placed in the references, including full URL and access date.

  • Example:

    The Sentencing Project. 2006. “New Incarceration Figures: Growth in Population Continues,” December. (http://www.sentencingproject.org/PublicationDetails.aspx?PublicationID=430), accessed on January 4, 2007.

Notes

When formatting, make sure to use endnotes for your manuscript submission rather than footnotes.

Latino Studies publishes endnotes as “side notes” The side notes are published on the outside margins of the page, alongside the article, rather than as footnotes at the bottom of the page, or as endnotes at the end of the article.

In order to keep side notes from becoming running columns on the side of the article text, we ask that authors keep all notes brief and to an absolute minimum. Please place author-date references within the article as discussed above, and use notes only to elaborate briefly on a particular point or for any Internet citation as noted above.

List of References

References are placed in alphabetical order of authors’ last names. The following are examples of correct forms of references:

  • Book:

    Hernández, R. 2002. The Mobility of Workers Under Advanced Capitalism: Dominican Migration to the United States. New York: Columbia University Press.

    Dalleo, R., and E. Machado Sáez. 2007. The Latino/a Canon and the Emergence of Post-Sixties Literature. New York: Palgrave Macmillan.

  • Edited collection:

    Gutiérrez, D.G., ed. 2006. The Columbia History of Latinos in the United States Since 1960. New York: Columbia University Press.

    Garcia, L.E., S.M. Gutierrez, and F. Nuñez, eds. 2008. Teatro Chicana: A Collective Memoir and Selected Plays. Austin: University of Texas Press.

  • Chapter in book:

    Coutin, S.B. 2005. The Formation and Transformation of Central American Community Organizations in Los Angeles. In Latino Los Angeles: Transformations, Communities, and Activism, eds. Gilda Ochoa and Enrique Ochoa, 155-177. Tucson: University of Arizona Press.

  • Chapter in edited collection:

    Rivera, R.Z. 2007. Between Blackness and Latinidad in the Hip Hop Zone. In A Companion to Latino Studies, 351-362, ed. Renato Rosaldo and Juan Flores. Massachusetts: Blackwell.

  • Journal article:

    Hernandez, D. 2008. Pursuant to Deportation: Immigrant Detention and Latinos. Latino Studies 6:35–63.

  • Conference paper:

    Rodríguez-Muñiz, M. 2008. Rearticulating Latinidad: Puerto Rican Solidarity in the Immigration Rights Movement. Paper presented at the Puerto Rican Studies Association Conference: Cartographies of Identities: Puerto Rico(ans) in the XXIst Century. San Juan, Puerto Rico: October 1-4

  • Thesis:

    Pérez, G.M. 2000. The Near Northwest Side Story: Gender, Migration, and Everyday Life in Chicago and San Sebastián, Puerto Rico. Ph.D. dissertation, Northwestern University.

  • Government documents:

    President’s Commission on Migratory Labor. 1951. Migratory Labor in American Agriculture. Washington, DC: US Government Printing Office.

    United States, Congress, Senate. 1954. Agricultural Workers from Mexico, Congressional Record, Proceedings and Debates of the 83rd Congress, Second Session, Volume 100, Part 2. Washington, DC: US Government Printing Office.

  • Newspaper article:

    Hill, G. 1951. Million a Year Flee Mexico Only to Find Peonage Here. The New York Times, 25 March: 1.

    Manifestación Independentista Borinqueña. 1935. La Prensa, September 3.

Illustrations and tables

Supply tables, figures and plates on separate sheets at the end of the article, with their position within the text clearly indicated on the page where they are introduced. Provide typed captions for figures and plates (including sources and acknowledgments) on a separate sheet. Electronic versions should be saved in separate files to the main body of text and should be saved in either TIFF or JPEG format.

Present tables with the minimum use of horizontal rules (usually three are sufficient) and avoiding vertical rules except in matrices. It is important to provide clear copies of figures (not photocopies or faxes), which can be reproduced by the printer and do not require redrawing. Photographs should be preferably black and white glossy prints with a wide tonal range.

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Clearing Permissions

Authors are responsible for obtaining permission from copyright holders for reproducing through any medium of communication those illustrations, tables, figures or lengthy quotations previously published elsewhere. Add your acknowledgments to the typescript, preferably in the form of an Acknowledgments section at the end of the paper. Credit the source and copyright of photographs or figures in the accompanying captions.

The journal's policy is to own copyright in all contributions. Before publication, authors assign copyright to the Publishers. Authors do however retain their rights to republish this material in other works written or edited by themselves, subject to full acknowledgment of the original source of publication.

The journal mandates the Copyright Clearance Center in the USA and the Copyright Licensing Agency in the UK to offer centralized licensing arrangements for photocopying in their respective territories.

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PDF

Corresponding authors will receive a copy of the journal and a PDF of their article. This PDF offprint is provided for personal use. It is the responsibility of the corresponding author to pass the PDF offprint onto co-authors (if relevant) and ensure that they are aware of the conditions pertaining to its use.

The PDF must not be placed on a publicly-available website for general viewing, or otherwise distributed without seeking our permission, as this would contravene our copyright policy and potentially damage the journal’s circulation. Please visit http://www.palgrave-journals.com/pal/authors/rights_and_permissions.html to see our latest copyright policy.